{stylish blogger award}

Wow! I’m stunned! I’ve seen these buttons on a few blogs now and wondered what they were.. And then yesterday I received one myself. :D I was nominated for the Stylish Blogger Award! Yaaay!

By accepting this reward I agreed to the following 4 rules:

1. Thank and link back to the person who awarded you this award. I feel so honored to receive a Stylish Blogger Award from my fellow blogger @ Require Life! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
Little Update: I got awarded again after I published this post. Yaaay! Many, many thanks to Rosanna @Bargain Corner Designs and Chris @Poppies & Poetry!

2. Share 7 things about yourself.This kinda feels like the “truth” part of playing truth or dare as a teenager..

My husband and I moved in with each other only 1 1⁄2 weeks into dating. It seems to work. ;)

My native tongue is German.

I’m really a brunette and I’ve had my hair red (really red), black and, for about 10 years now, blonde.

my brother and I in 1989

I’m considered tall in the US and have average height in Germany — being 174 cm/ 5′7″.

I swear too much.

My wedding dress was off craigslist, because I loved the idea of getting the dress I wanted for 1/4th of the price. Thrifty, eh? ;)

our elopement

I love Mexican food and I miss it dearly over here in Germany. Nothing compares to Tex-Mex in Houston!

3. Award 15 recently discovered great bloggers.

Okay, this is really hard. There are sooo many amazing bloggers out there!

Lisa

Poppies and Poetry

Sonntag, der 6. Februar 2011 at 16:31

Congrats! I just adore your blog:)

Thank you so much for including me in the nominations. I’m so excited and grateful!

I lived in Germany with my husband in Kaiserslautern from 1998–2001. He was in the Air Force. I couldn’t love that country more! I left a little of my heart there and hope to make it back one day with my boys to show them where my husband and I spent our college/newlywed years.

Krafty Kat

Sonntag, der 6. Februar 2011 at 18:14

Congratulations! It has been fun finding out so much more about you! Beautiful wedding gown. Thanks for including me, it is truly an honor. However, I have received this award a few times and wouldn’t feel right accepting. I would like for everyone to get a chance to be nominated!

Poppies and Poetry

I haven’t been back to Germany since 2001 regretfully. My time there is still so vivid in my memory and I just can’t wait to go back for an extended stay. I would live there, I really would!

While I lived there I worked for the Dept. of the Air Force in the VAT office and worked directly with the German utility companies and so I did speak some though never fluent. What I still remember I teach my boys.